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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Monday acknowledged for the first time that “radical Islamists” were behind...
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MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Monday acknowledged for the first time that “radical Islamists” were behind...
United States strongly condemned the
Charged with hunting down Ukrainian saboteurs inside Russia, with keeping anti-Kremlin activists in check, and with disrupting the operations of hostile foreign intelligence agencies, the FSB, the main successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, has its hands full.
The U.S. has shared intelligence warnings to Russia, including the recent attack at a concert hall in Moscow, under the "duty to warn" tenet of the U.S. intelligence community. This duty is aimed at sharing knowledge of a dire threat if conditions allow, whether it's allies, adversaries, or somewhere in between. There's little sign that Russia acted to head off Friday's attack, which killed more than 130 people.
President Vladimir Putin's swift blaming of Ukraine for the Moscow concert hall attack raises questions about the complex dynamics between Russia, ISIS, and global geopolitics.